Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta

Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC) is a research and teaching institute in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, focusing on social sciences and humanities. It was founded in 1973 jointly by the Indian Council of Social Science Research and the Government of West Bengal, with Professor S. Nurul Hasan, then education minister of India, as its founder and Professor Barun De as its first director. The centre specializes in post-colonial, subaltern, and cultural studies research. It houses the Jadunath Sarkar Resource Centre and Museum, which contains an extensive collection of vernacular primary and secondary literature. CSSSC publishes several journals, including Media Watch, produced in collaboration with Sage Publications. The institute is administered by a chairman, director, and registrar. It was initially located in Jadunath Bhavan, the former residence of historian Sir Jadunath Sarkar, and is now based in a new building in Patuli, Calcutta, while the resource centre and museum remain at the original site. Notable faculty associated with the centre include Amiya Bagchi, Partha Chatterjee, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Barun De, Amitav Ghosh, Ramchandra Guha, Sugata Marjit, Gyanendra Pandey, Surajit Chandra Sinha, and Tapati Guha-Thakurta.